Today in photos
A woman looks on in a field on the outskirts of Allahabad, India. Mannequins depicting British officers are seen in the WWII era Map Room in the bunker that used to house the Cabinet War rooms, in central London. And a protester smokes a cigarette as she sits at the entrance of the 'Climate Camp', in southeast London. View a slideshow of these images and more.
Section:Gallery
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A woman looks on in a field on the outskirts of Allahabad, India, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009.
Rajesh Singh Associated Press
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Women walk next to a railway track as they return home from a day's work in the fields, on the outskirts of Allahabad, India, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009.
Rajesh Singh Associated Press
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Devotees of Sindhi community carry earthen pots covered in red clothes on their heads during a religious procession to mark the end of Chaliho Sahib festival in Ahmadabad, India, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009.
Ajit Solanki Associated Press
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Chinese military singers take part in a chorus performance of patriotic songs involving 10,000 participants held at a gym in Beijing, China, Wednesday Aug. 26, 2009. More than 80 chorus groups from various units in Beijing sang patriotic songs to celebrate the upcoming 60th national day.
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Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's 90-type tanks flare up a smoke screen during the annual live firing exercise and demonstration at the Higashi Fuji training range in Gotemba southwest of Tokyo, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009.
Koji Sasahara Associated Press
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Afghan National Army soldiers sit around drinking tea after breaking their daily Ramadan fast after sunset in the village of Dahaneh, in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009.
Julie Jacobson Associated Press
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U.S. Marine Cpl. Russell pays his respects to Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard during a memorial service at a forward operating base with Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Regiment, 2nd MEB, 3rd MEF, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009, in Now Zad in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. Bernard was mortally wounded during a Taliban ambush on Aug. 14.
Julie Jacobson Associated Press
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Saifullah, an Afghan boy, sits on a donkey on his way to collecting drinking water in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009.
Rafiq Maqbool Associated Press
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, studies original blueprints of the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland, together with historian Ralf-Georg Reuth in Berlin, Germany, Thursday Aug. 27, 2009. The recently discovered blueprints were handed over by German newspaper 'Bild'. Netanyahu thanked the paper, published by Axel Springer Verlag, for giving the documents to him to take back to Yad Vashem in Israel. "There are those who deny that the Holocaust happened," the Prime Minister said. "Let them come to Jerusalem and look at these plans, these plans for the factory of death."
Rainer Jensen Associated Press
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Mannequins depicting British officers are seen in the WWII era Map Room in the bunker that used to house the Cabinet War rooms, in central London, Thursday Aug. 27, 2009. The Cabinet War rooms was the secret subterranean command center where Britain's inspirational, cigar-chomping, wartime leader Winston Churchill plotted the downfall of Nazi Germany and sheltered from enemy air raids during the infamous Blitz on London.
Lefteris Pitarakis Associated Press
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A member of Moldova's special police stands guard at the monument to the Grieving Mother on Independence Day in Chisinau, Moldova Thursday Aug. 27, 2009. Moldova, which gained its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, will begin deliberations in parliament on Friday to form a new government after communists lost control of the assembly in July elections.
John Mcconnico Associated Press
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Palestinian women react during the funeral of fisherman Muhammed Al Attar in the town of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009. A Palestinian health official says Al Attar was killed and another wounded by Israeli naval fire off the coast of the northern Gaza Strip.
Khalil Hamra Associated Press
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Marci Masuda, who wears a mask to protect her self from lingering wildfire smoke, walks her dogs, Foxy, left, and Punkin Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009, in Monterey Park, Calif. Two wildfires in the Angeles National Forest northeast of Los Angeles continue to burn as fire crews face another day of high heat.
Nick Ut Associated Press
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A protester smokes a cigarette as she sits at the entrance of the 'Climate Camp', in southeast London, Thursday Aug. 27, 2009. Hundreds of environmentalists gather on a field setting up a week-long protest camp against climate change.
Lefteris Pitarakis Associated Press